Bill Bryson Quotes

In the make-up of human beings, intelligence counts for more than our hands, and that is our true strength.

If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.

In the scale of the destinies, brawn will never weigh so mach as brain.

Longbottom, if brains were gold, you'd be poorer than Weasley, and that's saying something.

Some people are amazed at my brain, but really it's nothing.

The problem is I got a lot of brains but no polish.

It needs brains to be a real fool.

Brains first and then Hard Work.

Do you have a brain? Then you can think your way out of it. The reason we have brains is so we can figure out how to do things.

A man with so large a brain must have something in it.

If you can't be seven feet tall, be seven feet smart.

Some have brains, and some haven't, and there it is.

Brains aren't everything, but they're important.

Brain against brute force - and brain came out on the top - as its bound to do.

Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power.

The thinking that guides your intelligence is much more important than how much intelligence you may have.

The thing that is probably most important is having a brain, and to be able to figure things out and learn things very rapidly.

You certainly can't tell anything from the microscopic structure of the brain whether the person was an idiot or a genius.

While I'm impressed with the length of those legs, she's not an intellectual giant.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

I never thought that I was very intelligent.

These little grey cells. It is up to them.

I'm no genius, sure, but I'm no dum-dum.

I'm a little smarter than most.